May 23, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
A band like Loma, as great as they are, probably doesn't get a huge budget for a music video for a deep cut from the album, three months after the album came out. Hence their new video for "White Glass" is a fairly simple and low budget concept. The black & white clip features singer Emily Cross drawing out picture representations of the song's lyrics on a big pad of paper, as if playing a game of Pictionary. More
May 23, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Last night was the season finale of NBC's singing competition show The Voice. It wasn't all that surprising to Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) performed recent single "Hunger" as a means to promote her upcoming new album High As Hope. After all she is a theatrical pop vocalist with stage presence to spare. Less likely was rock singer/songwriter/guitarist Ryan Adams, clad in a Sonic Youth T-shirt, performing "Be Without You" (from last year's Prisoner album) as a duet with 17-year-old contestant Britton Buchanan, who ended up coming in second place this year. More
May 23, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Sweden's Lykke Li is releasing a new album, so sad so sexy, on June 8 via RCA. Now she has shared a video for previously shared single "hard rain." Li stars in the cinematic video with Moley Talhaoui, a Swedish artist/illustrator. More
May 22, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Björk released a new album, Utopia, last year via One Little Indian. Earlier tonight she appeared on the long running BBC music show Later... with Jools Holland, where various musicians take turns in the round, performing in a TV studio in front of a live audience. More
May 22, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
The Love Language (aka Stuart McLamb) has announced a new album, Baby Grand, his first in five years, and shared two songs from it, "Castle in the Sky" and "Southern Doldrums." More
May 22, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
France's Phoenix released a new album, Ti Amo, back in June 2017 via Glassnote. Now they have shared a video for "Role Model." It digitally inserts the band, Forest Gump style, into a 1980s documentary on the late iconic German fashion photographer Helmut Newton, as the band performs while he photographs models and at an art opening. More
May 22, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Mutual Benefit (aka Jordan Lee) has announced a new album, Thunder Follows the Heart, and shared two songs from it, "New History" and "Storm Cellar Heart." More
May 21, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Goldfrapp, the British duo of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory, released a new album, Silver Eye, back in March 2017 via Mute. Now Goldfrapp have announced a deluxe edition of the album and shared one of its bonus tracks, a previously unreleased new version of the album's "Ocean" that is now a duet with Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode. More
May 21, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Johnny Jewel (of Chromatics and other bands) has surprise-released a new album, Themes for Television, and shared a black & white Radka Leitmeritz-directed video for "Red Door." The album is out now digitally and on special edition cherry red vinyl via Italians Do It Better. The album features material Jewel recorded prior to last year's Twin Peaks: The Return revival, but was inspired by the notion that the show was coming back. More
May 19, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Sweden's Lykke Li is releasing a new album, so sad so sexy, on June 8 via RCA. Now she has shared a video for "deep end." The intimate video was shot on an iPhone and chronicles a night at a hotel and in a pool. More
